Summer brings plenty of lazy days for reading poolside or in the shade of your favorite tree, but sometimes you need a chill in the air to convince you to come inside and pick something great off your TBR pile. In case you haven’t been squirreling away tasty romances like acorns all summer, we’ve got some terrific suggestions to keep you going until winter.

New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin “delivers the goods” (Publishers Weekly) again with this gripping, “spellbinding” (Fresh Fiction) thriller full of twists and turns—the twelfth in her bestselling Tracers series.

This fish-out-of-water story plunges Margot, a high-powered Chicago event planner, into the world of sleepy Lake Sackett, Georgia, when a distant cousin persuades her to come meet the family she hasn't seen since she was a baby. The McCreadys run the local funeral home and bait shop (what, you have a problem with one-stop shopping), and they're eager to welcome their long-lost kin--but Margot's not sure she wants to stick around in the land of deep-fried everything...until she catches sight of the handsome new elementary school principal!

Irresistible chemistry and thrilling suspense combine in this electrifying new installment in New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands' Argeneau series.
Beth Argenis first met Cullen "Scotty" MacDonald one hundred and twenty-five years ago and he instantly became the star of her most X-rated dreams. Scotty has hesitated to claim Beth as his own. But one explosive kiss confirms what he's long suspected: She's his life mate. Beth is now in immortal danger, so he'll have to rethink everything he once believed about love and destiny as well as confront an enemy who's terrifyingly close.

In this historical novel, Eliza Hamilton is a popular member of society and fierce ally to her husband Alexander. However, through public scandal, betrayal, personal heartbreak, and tragedy, she is tested again and again. In the end, it will be Eliza’s indomitable strength that make her not only Hamilton’s most crucial ally in life, but his most loyal advocate after his death.

When M.J. Stark trades her picture-perfect (but lonely) life in NYC for a completely new life in California, she’s left a mysterious invitation to a secret club—one that only reads erotic books. Curious, M.J. accepts and meets the three other hand-selected club members. As these four strangers bond and start to divulge the intimate details of their own lives, they learn that friendship might just be the key to rewriting their own stories: all they needed was to find each other first.

When Lyle Tarpin, the clean-cut Hollywood actor battling his own internal demons, is photographed in a compromising position by an over-eager reporter, the only way to save his career is to say that the woman he was with is his fiancée. Struggling waitress Sugar Laine agrees to spend one night with Lyle―but only because she’s desperate to save her family home. She never expects that a night of passion will turn into a pretend engagement … or that the heat between them will blossom into love.
But sometimes love has a price and can Lyle and Sugar afford to pay it?

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